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Table of Contents

This section lists known errors or problems in the SMIL specification
itself.

Section 3.3.1: in
the description of the "fit" attribute and its "meet" value, the text
"empty space at the left or bottom is filled" should read "empty space at
the right or bottom is filled"

Error Report:

Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 12:06:38 -0500
To: ph@w3.org
From: Tom Magliery <mag@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
Subject: smil spec typos
...
1. in section 3.3.1, about <region fit="meet">, the text "empty
space at the left or bottom is filled" should read "empty space at
the right or bottom is filled"
....

Section 3.3.1: At
the end of the description of the "fit attribute, the text 'The default
value of "fill" is "hidden"' should read 'The default value of "fit" is
"hidden"'.

Error Report:

From: Susanna Lowrey <slowrey@ixl.com>
...
To: ph@w3.org
Subject: possible error found in section 3.3.1 of SMIL 1.0 specification
...
At the end of the section describing the fit attribute, it says "The
default value of "fill" is "hidden"." Shouldn't it be "fit" instead of
"fill", since "fill" is itself a possible value for "fit"?

Section
4.2.3: The following should be added to the list of attributes:

Section
4.2.4.2: In the section "Determining the implicit end of an
element", in the last bullet, all occurences of "duration" should be
replaced by "end". It should read as follows:

A "par" element has an implicit end that depends on the value of
the "endsync" attribute. The implicit end is equal to the sum of the
effective begin of the "par" element and the implicit duration which
is derived as follows:

If the value of the "endsync" attribute is "last", or if the
"endsync" attribute is missing, the implicit end of the "par"
element is the maximum of the desired ends of its children.

If the value of the "endsync" attribute is "first", the
implicit end of the "par" element is the minimum of the
desired ends of its children.

If the value of the "endsync" attribute is an id-ref, the
implicit end of the "par" element is equal to the desired end of
the child referenced by the "id-ref".

Error Report:

To: ph@w3.org
Subject: bug in time model description
...
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 10:59:41 +0200
From: Sjoerd Mullender <Sjoerd.Mullender@cwi.nl>
...
In Section 4.2.4.2 "Determining Time Model Values for SMIL 1.0
Elements", subsection "Determining the implicit end of an element",
last bullet, the implicit end of a par is defined. The implicit end
of the par depends on the ends of its children, not on the duration of
its children since the start of the children may be delayed. So the
text should be:
A "par" element has an implicit end that depends on the value of the
"endsync" attribute. The implicit end is derived as follows:
- If the value of the "endsync" attribute is "last", or if the
"endsync" attribute is missing, the implicit end of the "par"
element is the maximum of the desired ends of its children.
- If the value of the "endsync" attribute is "first", the implicit end
of the "par" element is the minimum of the desired ends of its
children.
- If the value of the "endsync" attribute is an id-ref, the implicit
end of the "par" element is equal to the desired end of the child
referenced by the "id-ref".
...

Section
4.2.4.2: In the Section "Determining the effective end of an
element", at the bullet starting with "The effective end of any other
child of a "seq" element ...", the second sub-bullet should read:

If the child has a "fill" attribute, and the value of the "fill"
attribute is "remove", the effective end of the child element is the
minimum of the effective begin of the next element and the desired
end of the child element.

Section 4.5.2: The
following should be added to the list of attributes:

href

Defined in Section 4.5.1

Error Report:

To: symm@w3.org
...
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:08:29 +0200
From: Sjoerd Mullender <Sjoerd.Mullender@cwi.nl>
Subject: error in recommendation
...
The href attribute is missing in the description of the anchor
element. It is present in the DTD and in the examples.

Appendix:
Extending SMIL 1.0: The example uses an outdated syntax for XML
namespaces, and the wrong namespace identifier for the SMIL
Recommendation. With corrected syntax, the example reads as follows: